My personal website is one of the places where I can easily experiment, and it has been written and rewritten a few times. Having said that, laziness meant that it was stuck on its previous PHP-laravel implementation for a while. PHP was one of the first things I learned as continue reading…
Typescript and the Beanstalk Deploying typescript apps to Beanstalk with CircleCI Before we get started, note that this post assumes that you have your CircleCI/Beanstalk integration working already. The reason for this is that setting that up itself is a very long-winded process. I may make a video about it continue reading…
How to fix your node dependencies’ es6 causing browser errors If you’re doing anything with modern JavaScript this day and age you’re probably using es6 and using babel to transpile it back to es5, which works with most browsers. This works fine for the code you write, but what about continue reading…
Getting started with express and typescript I recently started an ExpressJS project, and I wanted to use Typescript, as I thought my project would benefit from the typed language and stricter structure. I had a bit of trouble setting up when following other tutorials, so of course the right thing continue reading…
Getting started with NodeJS, nvm, npm. I’ve recently been playing with NodeJS, and wanted to share my findings. This is just a quick ‘hello world’ tutorial on getting started. I (as of writing) code perl for a living, so you should definitely take my word on nodejs ;). Ok, enough continue reading…
The Javascript debugger is a great tool for seeing how an application or page behaves or solving a problem when it’s not behaving the right way – without consoie.log all over the place. In this article we will have a look at how it is used. Let’s have a look continue reading…
It’s … been a while, hasn’t it? Okay, okay, it’s been three months. I’m currently buried underneath 6ft of Uni work, given this is my final year and my dissertation is due soon. I’ll try to blog more often once I get into full-time paid employment. However, until then, here’s continue reading…
I absolutely love the fact that tools like ionic and Cordova exist. It means that Web Developers like myself can build hybrid applications (apps that work in both web and mobile) without needing to write native code. However, this doesn’t come without disadvantages. Due to this, I wanted to write a continue reading…
This is a continuation of my previous rant on mistakes web developers make that make forms unusable. Here are other things I’ve noticed, mostly about forms that need your address: Requiring a ‘middle name’. They’re not used in every country in the world. Having a broken country input. This, in continue reading…
Web forms. They are used everywhere. Yet I have seen so many things done in them, that have made it difficult for even myself (a tech-savvy user, a web developer) to fill in. This should not happen. Filling in web forms is required for many reasons, yet to many users continue reading…